Aspergillus flavus is an agriculturally important fungus that causes ear rot of maize and produces aflatoxins, of which B1 is the most carcinogenic naturally-produced compound. In the US, the management of aflatoxins includes the deployment of biological control agents that comprise two nonaflatoxigenic A. flavus strains, either Afla-Guard (member of lineage IB) or AF36 (lineage IC).
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Community composition and recruitment are important elements of plant-microbe interactions and may provide insights for plant development and resilience. The results of 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing from four rhizocompartments for four wheat cultivars grown under controlled conditions and sampled after flag leaf emergence are provided. Data demonstrate differences in microbial communities according to rhizocompartment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHost resistance is an important tool in the management of black shank disease of tobacco. Race development leads to rapid loss of single-gene resistance, but the adaptation by to sources of partial resistance from Beinhart 1000, Florida 301, and the gene region introgressed from is poorly characterized. In greenhouse environments, host genotypes with quantitative trait loci (QTLs) conferring resistance from multiple sources were initially inoculated with an aggressive isolate of race 0 or race 1 of .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMorphological characterization and multi-locus DNA sequence analysis of fungal isolates obtained from 32 clinical cases of equine fungal keratitis (FK) was performed to identify species and determine associations with antifungal susceptibility, response to therapy and clinical outcome. Two species of Aspergillus (A. flavus and A.
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